Creative Writing

Sometimes I just rant about shit in a poetic form, it's shite and just random but believe it or not I've had one of my poems published (when I was 12, tbh).  I write a lot and keep it to myself both prose and poetry, I really enjoyed the writing portfolio element I had to do and part of it was creative writing, I wish there were more assessments like that on the course.

Here's my poetic rant about smart phones that turn us into zombies:

Smart Phones:

Life is busy, fast and quick,

And we crave that social media fix.

Enter your passcode, and open the door,

Video that girl, lying wasted on the floor.

Links all over the world in one click.

Nice selfie! Give that a like in one flick.

X-Factor, Jezza Kyle and Corrie 

All lying there waiting to be streamed

Wasting time, procrastination, it seemed.

Whilst that little girl screams, and screams

Her mother too busy updating her status

To take that social media hiatus

Spectating a snapchat story

Since when did that have more glory,

Than reading a book?

In a world where you don’t even have time to look

A 9 second vine video, they swore

Is that all we’ve got time for? No, one more!

We’re “technologically literate”

Let me just irritate

It results in us tlkng lyk dis

When getting 10 likes makes you feel bliss

This profanity

And new found materialistic vanity.

We’re the generation that are so smart

We might as well be bionic and not have a heart

We’re so smart yet so shit.

No one helps, cares or does their bit

Online personas are more significant

You can share your life, oh, brilliant.

But where does that leave me?

Wading through a sea

Of reblogs, likes and hashtags

Pictures of lipstick, trainers and handbags

Great it’s so easy now

To document our lives, “like OMG wow”.

When looking down at a phone

Is now how we deal with being alone?

Get up and talk

Move about and walk

Stop looking at that screen

Before you throw your “slow” phone and scream. 

Thanks for reading, 

Bekka.